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submitted 1 day ago by Bell@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

The End of Windows 10 is looming. The world needs a simpler, easy, quick, snackable alternative

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[-] Shareni@programming.dev 3 points 21 hours ago

Why the hell would you use arch for browser centric use? Literally any stable distro would work perfectly fine, and doesn't risk failing to boot because of an update...

[-] Pat@feddit.nu 1 points 27 minutes ago

I don't know too much about distros, but you want something quite light. Let's be real, enterprise like schools won't pony up everything for Debian, especially when they just use Chromium and maybe Libreoffice. Schools are cheap, and if you can hacksaw together an Arch-based thing, they WILL buy miserable hardware, that can just barely run it, and an 8 gig SSD is much more stomachable for them than a 32-gig for Debian. SteamOS doesn't completely crash, and that's infinitely more complicated. This is basic Arch, plus a WM, plus Firefox/Chromium/Whatever.

[-] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 19 hours ago

Because arch btw 🙄

I think an immutable distro like Bazzite's cousins Aurora (KDE) and Bluefin (GNOME) would be far more appropriate. Combined with automatic rollback (if the system fails to boot, rollback to previous version) and it'd be practically bulletproof in education.

[-] Shareni@programming.dev 1 points 18 hours ago

I honestly never tried them as they don't fit my use case, so I can't comment. The concept does sound good though.

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